Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the country is keen to build two more units at the Rooppur nuclear power plant, which is currently under construction.

X-Energy Reactor Company and Canadian power producer TransAlta Corporation are to study the feasibility of deploying an X-energy Xe-100 advanced small modular nuclear reactor at a repurposed fossil fuel power plant in the province of Alberta.

The company says its application to build the Natrium reactor demonstration project is the first construction permit application for a commercial advanced reactor to be submitted to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Non-nuclear construction will begin this summer.

France's nuclear regulator has launched a three-week public consultation on its draft decision to authorise the commissioning of the Flamanville EPR reactor, which has a summer 2024 target for connection to the grid.

The US Trade and Development Agency has announced funding for a series of international workshops to advance US-led civil nuclear energy deployment in Europe and Eurasia. 

Serbia is seeking support from other countries on nuclear know-how and financing towards its goal of getting 1200 MW of capacity from small modular reactors, President Aleksandar Vučić told the Nuclear Energy Summit.

The 1400 MWe pressurised water reactor has begun delivering electricity to the United Arab Emirates' grid, weeks after achieving first criticality and bringing the four-unit plant closer to its goal of providing 25% of the country's electricity needs.

Kenya's Nuclear Power and Energy Agency has launched a strategic plan that will guide the development of its nuclear power programme over the next five years as it prepares to build its first nuclear power plant.

Prodigy Clean Energy and Des Nëdhé Group - an Indigenous Economic Development Corporation - have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop opportunities to power remote mines and communities in Canada using Prodigy microreactor Transportable Nuclear Power Plants.

North American steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation and US tech giants Google and Microsoft Corporation are to work together across the electricity ecosystem to develop new business models and aggregate their demand for advanced clean electricity technologies, including advanced nuclear.

The walls of the containment building of unit 3 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province are now in place following the installation of the third cylinder ring, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute announced.

The concreting of the 2100-square-metre foundation slab for the new VVER-1200 unit has begun, with those attending the occasion told the additional Leningrad nuclear power plant capacity would help towards Russia achieving a 25% energy share for nuclear by 2045.